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SOCIETY NOTES 
Mr. and Mrs. Prescott Bigelow and Miss Elizabeth 
Bigelow of the Manchester colony, were recent arrivals in 
Paris at the Astoria, after a cruise in the Mediterranean. 
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Mr. and Mrs. William C. Endicott of the Beverly 
colony sailed from New York last Saturday on the Car- 
mania for a European trip. 
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Miss Margaret Thomas and Miss Leslie Bradley of 
Boston and Pride’s, who have been house guests of Mr. 
and Mrs. Benjamin Brewster, Jr., in Baltimore, were 
given an informal supper party at the Green Spring Hunt 
Club by their host and hostess, who, earlier in the season, 
visited the Robert Stow Bradleys in Boston. 
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Hiram Percy Maxim of Hartford and Bass Rocks, 
is a beneficiary under the will of the late Jane Maxim of 
Ilyde Park, the first wife of the scientist and inventor, 
Sir Hiram Maxim. Mr. Maxim, besides sharing equally 
with Miss Florence Maxim of Hyde Park, was appointed 
executor with sureties placed at $65,000. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Charles Webster Littlefield of Kansas 
City, are to occupy Mrs. A. Octavia Wilkins’ cottage at 
Magnolia. Miss Mary A. Armour, Mrs. Littlefield’s 
daughter is to be with her mother throughout the summer. 
lmprovements are being made to the cottage pending their 
arrival, June roth. 
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Mrs. A. Octavia Wilkins of Cambridge, will be at 
Fiesperus Villa, Magnolia, this summer as usual.- Mrs. 
Wilkins will arrive May 4th. 
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Major Luther S. Bent and wife of Overbrook, Penn., 
are at Annisquam for a spring visit. They brought their 
gardener and several maids to get their own house and 
the several cottages they own in readiness for,the ap- 
proaching season. 
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Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Raymond of New York and 
Cleveland, Ohio, have concluded their spring visit at 
their estate, ““The Ramparts,” at East Gloucester. 
Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr., gave one of the prettt- 
est young people’s dances of the Easter season at her 
home on Madison avenue in New York Friday night. ‘The 
guests were young girls not yet out in society and boys 
home for the Easter holidays. Mrs. Morgan is a daughter 
of Mrs. Henry S. Grew, of Boston and Manchester, and 
a sister of Mrs. S..V. R. Crosby of Boston and West 
Manchester. 
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Hon. A. C. Ratshesky, president of the United States 
Trust Company, Boston, has returned from a three 
months’ trip to the Mediterranean, Egypt and the Holy 
Land. He was accompanied by Mrs. Ratshesky. They 
are now settled in their summer home, corner Ober and 
Woodbury streets, Beverly. 
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Archbishop O’Connell has gone to Washington for 
the annual conference of the archbishops of the country. 
While at the capitol he will attend also the annual meet- 
ing of the trustees of the Catholic University. ‘The Arch- 
bishop spends the greater portion of the summer on the 
North Shore having acquired the beautiful estate of the 
late Jonas French of Boston at Bay View, Gloucester, 
which adjoins the estate of the late Gen. Benjamin F. But- 
ler. It is conducted as a Catholic summer school. 
LincoLn Housr Son. 
One of the most important sales that has been effected 
on the North shore in a long time has just been closed 
by Charles Neal Barney, administrator of the estate of 
Stephen H. Wardwell, late of Swampscott, who transfers 
t» a well-known syndicate represented by Coffin & Taber, 
ef the Penn Mutual building, Boston, the well-known 
Lincoln house, Swampscott. ‘The hotel is one of the most 
historic on the North shore, having been erected in 1860. 
The point is surrounded by water on three sides, and the 
house accommodates 200 guests. From time to time it 
has been improved, and with the sale of the hotel proper 
goes 150,470 square feet of land, on which are several 
cottages. The total assessment is $84,500, and the sum 
paid greatly exceeded that figure. After this season, it 
is the intention of Coffin & Taber to make extensive 
changes in the entire property. The house will be open, 
however, this season, under the same management as in 
the past. 
Under the caption of “The Calam- 
ity Doctor,” James Hay, Jr., had an 
article in last Sunday’s Boston Post 
tagazine on Miss Mabel Boardman 
of Washington and Manchester. We 
quote a brief extract :— 
“She belongs to Society — the kind 
that is spelled with a great big capi- 
tal S. There is no one ahead of her 
when it comes to listening to the 
tinkle of a little spoon against a forty- 
dollar cup at an afternoon tea. In 
the midst of Fashion’s flutter, she is 
one of the leading flutterers; and she 
knows all about that wealthy world 
that is made up of automobiles, small 
talk, diplomats, silk, and golf. 
“But this is not all. Miss Mabel 
Boardman of Washington, D. C., is 
also a day laborer. Every morning, 
shortly after nine o’clock, she shows 
up at the War Department and lands 
on the pile of letters and documents 
on her desk. And she is not ham- 
pered by the frippery of Paris crea- 
tions or the superfluities of trailing 
gowns. She gets on the job in her 
working clothes; for she does Work 
—the kind that is spelled with a great 
big capital W. 
“She does not work on a_ small 
scale, neither does she aim at little 
things. Big men work for her, and 
in her special line of endeavor she is 
the boss of such political and- finan- 
cial figures as Lloyd Griscom and 
Robert Bacon of New York, Cyrus 
H. McCormick and John G. Shedd of 
Chicago, Charles P. Taft of Cincin- 
nati, and John Hays Hammond and 
Thomas Nelson Page of Washington. 
“All of which is explained by the 
fact that Miss Boardman is cherish- 
ing an ideal, achieving an ambition, 
and realizing a dream. She is eager 
to put the American National Red 
Cross Society into such condition that 
it will nurse back to health all those 
wounded in war and alleviate the suf- 
ferings of any men or women who 
may be the victims of catastrophes on 
land or sea. ‘To make this possible, 
she is now engaged in raising a fund 
of two million dollars.” 
The article was illustrated by a pic- 
ture of Miss Boardman. President 
‘Vaft’s tribute to Miss Boardman from 
en unpublished letter to former Vice 
President Fairbanks is also published 
ia conjunction with the article. 
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Henry C. Frick, Miss Helen Frick, 
Mr. Greer and other New York 
friends arrived at Pride’s at 1 a.m., 
Wednesday morning in the private 
car Westmoreland. ‘They are there 
for an indefinite stay. 
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Dr. and Mrs. Franklin Dexter of 
Boston, were due at their Pride’s es- 
tate, “Oberland,” on Hale street to- 
day for the season. 
